Project Gutenberg 2025-06-15 Public domain in the USA. 224 Goldston, Will 1877 1948 Browne, Van Dyke Devo, Carl Goldstone, Wolf Secrets of scene painting and stage effects Seventh edition $aLondon :$bGeorge Routledge & Sons, Limited, $c1900. Richard Tonsing, deaurider, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Secrets of scene painting and stage effects by Will Goldston" is a practical guidebook on theatrical scenography and stagecraft written in the early 20th century. Aimed especially at amateurs and small companies, it explains how to plan, paint, build, rig, and light scenery, and how to create convincing stage effects. The book opens by stressing scenery’s role in realism, offers a brief history of staging from the Greeks to movable scenery, and then provides step‑by‑step instruction on materials (flax canvas, sizing, distemper paints), brushes, priming, sketching, mixing colors for light and shadow, and safe fireproofing. It teaches scaling a sketch to full size, simple rules of perspective for interiors and streets, and practical design choices for cottages, halls, and landscapes, including stenciling and color schemes. Clear guidance follows on handling scenery—back cloths, flats, braces, and wings—plus building a portable platform and stage with curtain and rigging. Lighting with limelight and gels is outlined, and a large section details sound and weather effects: horses’ hoofbeats, thunder sheets, rain boxes, wind machines, snow cloths, rippling water, and compact mechanical devices for cinemas. Throughout, it emphasizes broad, stage-true effects, careful timing, and efficient backstage practice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/secretsofscenepa00brow 20240220081536brown 1900 GB Reading ease score: 64.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery Scene painting ND Text Category: Art Category: How To ... 104267 2025-09-30T07:10:41.599501 text/html 78289 2025-06-15T01:54:12 text/html 7990534 2025-09-30T07:10:46.880457 application/epub+zip 7989147 2025-09-30T07:10:43.341487 application/epub+zip 420432 2025-09-30T07:10:42.353457 application/epub+zip 8894920 2025-09-30T07:10:49.285501 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 8878637 2025-09-30T07:10:46.033490 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 82394 2025-09-30T07:10:41.257478 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 62409 2025-06-15T01:54:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16308 2025-09-30T07:10:49.421459 application/rdf+xml 35581 2025-09-30T07:10:42.577481 image/jpeg 5308 2025-09-30T07:10:42.463464 image/jpeg 9064902 2025-09-30T07:10:41.771521 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia